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Suicide Squad's Twisted Realism

September 9, 2021

Have you ever asked yourself this question: “Why would I go and see a redux of a movie that was so awful in the first place?” Well folks, 2021’s “The Suicide Squad” is your answer.

More than being a solid superhero movie, it addresses a crucial theme that governments across the world have forgotten: the ends don’t justify the means.

No matter how noble and worthy the pursuit of the “greater good” is, protecting individual rights and respecting human dignity should always supersede the government’s plans. We’ll break it down and explain why on this episode of Out of Frame.

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-- What made the first “Suicide Squad” bad --

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/08/suicide-squad-director-david-ayer-6-weeks-write-script 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/suicide-squads-secret-drama-rushed-916693/ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDclQowcE9I

-- Nazi human experiments --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aribert_Heim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Wirths

-- Soviet experiments -- 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov#/media/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/

-- North Korea experiments --

https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/scientist-says-n-korea-tests-chemicals-on-prisoners/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3461935.stm
https://medium.com/@akhilesh.kushwaha16/human-experimentation-c3118dcb71a2

-- Other experiments --

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/cuba#
https://www.icj.org/maoist-rebel-abuses-continue/
https://hekint.org/2019/04/30/the-montreal-experiments-brainwashing-and-the-ethics-of-psychiatric-experimentation/

-- China experiments -- 

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/chinas-uighur-internment-camps-turn-to-forced-labor/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
https://freedomhouse.org/article/china-global-leader-political-prisoners
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/china-has-done-human-testing-create-biologically-enhanced-super-soldiers-n1249914

-- CIA MK experiments --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/04/archives/80-institutions-used-in-cia-mind-studies-admiral-turner-tells.html
https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
https://www.newsweek.com/cia-mkultra-documents-files-remote-control-dogs-1250519
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/

-- Modern United States experiments -- 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233494/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

-- Tuskegee experiment --

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans

-- United States foreign interventions --

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/20/mapped-the-7-governments-the-u-s-has-overthrown/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/23/the-cia-says-russia-hacked-the-u-s-election-here-are-6-things-to-learn-from-cold-war-attempts-to-change-regimes/
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections
http://www.dovhlevin.com/datasets

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